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บทเรียน 12: Moving and migration
Present perfect with 'for' and 'since'

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  1. 1Nice to meet you!
  2. 2What to wear
  3. 3Like this, like that
  4. 4The daily grind
  5. 5Christmas every day
  6. 6Great achievers
  7. 7The Titanic
  8. 8Travel
  9. 9The big wedding
  10. 10Sunny's job hunt
  11. 11The bucket list
  12. 12Moving and migration
  13. 13Welcome to BBC Broadcasting House
  14. 14New Year, New Project
  15. 15From Handel to Hendrix
  16. 16What's the weather like?
  17. 17The Digital Revolution
  18. 18A detective story
  19. 19A place to live
  20. 20The Cult of Celebrity
  21. 21Welcome to your new job
  22. 22Beyond the planets
  23. 23Great expectations!
  24. 24Eco-tourism
  25. 25Moving house
  26. 26It must be love
  27. 27Job hunting success... and failure
  28. 28Speeding into the future
  29. 29Lost arts
  30. 30Tales of survival

บทเรียนย่อย 2

In this unit we've already heard from people talking about our emotional move to the BBC World Service's new home. In this session we'll be looking at the grammar you can use to talk about this kind of experience: the present perfect with the words for and since. We'll also hear from someone who has worked at the BBC since 1991!

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Changing jobs

Different jobs, different experience

So far in this session we have learned about someone who's worked at the BBC for a long time. Now it's time to hear from someone who joined the BBC more recently. Sourena is a broadcast journalist, and he's going to tell us a bit about his experience. 

Listen to him speak and see if you can work out the link between Iran, fashion and the BBC. And don't forget to listen out for the present perfect!

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Sourena, BBC broadcast journalist
Hi. My name is Sourena and I'm from Iran. I'm a broadcast journalist, but before that I worked as a fashion designer for five years in Iran.

When I was in fashion, I had my own label. So, I was responsible for designing, making and selling all my clothes and accessories. It was a stressful but exciting experience. Now, I’ve worked for the BBC since 2012. So, I've worked here for about three years.

Since I joined the BBC, my working life has changed a bit. As a journalist, I present, record, edit, upload things to our website. The most exciting thing I've done as a BBC journalist was when I reported on the Oscars live on camera. It was a brilliant opportunity to use my fashion knowledge as a journalist.

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The link between the three pictures was... Sourena! He's from Iran, and before he joined the BBC he worked as a fashion designer.

Did you hear the things Sourena talked about using the present perfect?

To do

He talked about his experience using the present perfect in different ways. We've already seen some of these, with for and since and time references. But there was one more way that we can use the present perfect that we heard. 

Try this activity and see if you get it right!

 

Sentences about Sourena

4 Questions

Match the first half of the sentence with the correct second half to describe true facts about Sourena

ยินดีด้วยคุณทำแบบฝึกหัดเสร็จแล้ว
Excellent!เยี่ยม!แย่หน่อย!คุณทำคะแนนได้:
x / y

Sentences about Sourena

4 Questions

Match the first half of the sentence with the correct second half to describe true facts about Sourena

ยินดีด้วยคุณทำแบบฝึกหัดเสร็จแล้ว
Excellent!เยี่ยม!แย่หน่อย!คุณทำคะแนนได้:
x / y

So Sourena used the present perfect with a reference to an event to describe his experience. He said:

Since I joined the BBC, my working life has changed...

The reference to the event here is in the past simple, but he could also say this:

Since joining the BBC, my working life has changed...

So with since we can use a past simple statement or a gerund and then use the present perfect. Here are two more examples:

Since I moved to the UK, my English has improved a lot.

Since moving to London, I have started to spend more money on rent.

Next

Right, since you started this session, you've heard a lot about the present perfect. It's time to study for a little bit longer. 6 Minute Grammar with Neil and Sophie will help you make sense of what you've learned!

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  • The present perfect is often used to talk about situations that started in the past and are continuing now.

    We talk about how long using the words for and since.

    for = throughout (a period of time)

    They've been married for six months.

    since = from (an exact point in time) until now

    They've been married since March.

    We can also use present perfect + since + past simple.

    I haven't seen Tanya since we graduated.

    The present perfect is made with subject+have/has (positive) or haven't/hasn't (negative) +past participle.

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Session Vocabulary

  • broadcast journalist
    a journalist who works on news reports that are published electronically, on TV or radio

    label
    (here) the brand name of a fashion designer

    accessories
    (here) small items of clothing or jewellery that can be added to an outfit to make it more complete or attractive

    stressful
    causing stress

    upload
    (here) put documents, including text, audio and video, on to a website

    the Oscars
    the American Academy Awards, celebrating achievement in film and cinema

    brilliant
    (here) very good

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